Apply parental controls on your child's iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch

With Content & Privacy Restrictions in Screen Time, you lot can block or limit specific apps and features on your child's device. You can also restrict the settings on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod affect for explicit content, purchases and downloads, and privacy.

  • Set Content & Privacy Restrictions

  • Foreclose iTunes & App Store purchases

  • Let congenital-in apps and features

  • Prevent explicit content and content ratings

  • Prevent web content

  • Restrict Siri web search

  • Restrict Game Middle

  • Permit changes to privacy settings

  • Allow changes to other settings and features

Ready Content & Privacy Restrictions

  1. Get to Settings and tap Screen Time.
  2. Tap Continue, then cull "This is My [Device]" or "This is My Kid'due south [Device]."
    • If you're the parent or guardian of your device and want to foreclose some other family unit fellow member from changing your settings, tap Use Screen Time Passcode to create a passcode, then re-enter the passcode to confirm. In iOS 13.4 and afterwards, later on you confirm your passcode you'll be asked to enter your Apple ID and password. This can be used to reset your Screen Time passcode if y'all forget it.
    • If you're setting up Screen Fourth dimension on your child'due south device, follow the prompts until you go to Parent Passcode and enter a passcode. Re-enter the passcode to ostend. In iOS 13.4 and afterwards, afterward you confirm your passcode you'll be asked to enter your Apple ID and password. This can be used to reset your Screen Time passcode if y'all forget information technology.
  3. Tap Content & Privacy Restrictions. If asked, enter your passcode, then turn on Content & Privacy.

Make sure to choose a passcode that'southward dissimilar from the passcode that yous use to unlock your device. To alter or plow off the passcode on your kid'due south device, tap Settings > Screen Time > [your kid's proper noun]. And so tap Modify Screen Time Passcode or Turn Off Screen Time Passcode, and authenticate the change with Face ID, Impact ID, or your device passcode.

If you forgot your Screen Fourth dimension passcode, update your device to the latest iOS or iPadOS then reset your passcode. If you tin can't update your device, erase information technology and set it up equally new to remove the passcode and choose a new i. Restoring your device from a backup won't remove your passcode.

An iPhone showing the iTunes & App Store Purchases screen. Under Require Password, the Don't Require option is selected with a checkmark next to it.

Prevent iTunes & App Shop purchases

You can as well preclude your child from being able to install or delete apps, make in-app purchases, and more than. To prevent iTunes & App Store purchases or downloads:

  1. Go to Settings and tap Screen Time.
  2. Tap Content & Privacy Restrictions. If asked, enter your passcode.
  3. Tap iTunes & App Shop Purchases.
  4. Choose a setting and gear up to Don't Allow.

You can too change your password settings for additional purchases from the iTunes & App Shop or Book Store. Follow steps one-iii, then choose Always Require or Don't Require.

An iPhone showing the Allowed Apps screen. Selected apps have their toggle turned on.

Allow congenital-in apps and features

You can restrict the use of congenital-in apps or features. If you turn off an app or feature, the app or feature won't exist deleted, it'south just temporarily hidden from your Home Screen. For example, if you lot turn off Mail, the Mail app won't appear on your Home Screen until you plow it dorsum on.

To modify your Immune Apps:

  1. Go to Settings and tap Screen Time.
  2. Tap Content & Privacy Restrictions.
  3. Enter your Screen Time passcode.
  4. Tap Allowed Apps.
  5. Select the apps that yous want to allow.

Foreclose explicit content and content ratings

You tin also prevent the playback of music with explicit content and movies or Tv set shows with specific ratings. Apps also take ratings that tin can be configured using content restrictions.

To restrict explicit content and content ratings:

  1. Go to Settings and tap Screen Fourth dimension.
  2. Tap Content & Privacy Restrictions, and then tap Content Restrictions.
  3. Choose the settings that you want for each feature or setting nether Immune Shop Content.

Here are the types of content that you lot can restrict:

  • Music, Podcasts, News, & Workouts: Foreclose the playback of music, music videos, podcasts, news, and workouts containing explicit content
  • Music Videos: Prevent finding and viewing music videos
  • Music Profiles: Foreclose sharing what you're listening to with friends and seeing what they're listening to
  • Movies: Preclude movies with specific ratings
  • TV Shows: Prevent TV shows with specific ratings
  • Books: Prevent content with specific ratings
  • Apps: Prevent apps with specific ratings
  • App Clips: Prevent app clips with specific ratings

An iPhone showing the Web Content screen. Under Web Content, the Limit Adult Websites option is selected with a checkmark next to it.

Foreclose web content

iOS and iPadOS can automatically filter website content to limit admission to developed content in Safari and other apps on your device. You can besides add together specific websites to an canonical or blocked listing, or you lot can limit access to merely approved websites. Follow these steps:

  1. Become to Settings and tap Screen Time.
  2. Tap Content & Privacy Restrictions and enter your Screen Time passcode.
  3. Tap Content Restrictions, then tap Web Content.
  4. Choose Unrestricted Admission, Limit Adult Websites, or Immune Websites Just.

Depending on the access you allow, you might need to add together information, like the website that y'all want to restrict.

Restrict Siri spider web search

To restrict Siri features:

  1. Go to Settings and tap Screen Time.
  2. Tap Content & Privacy Restrictions, then tap Content Restrictions.
  3. Scroll down to Siri, then choose your settings.

You can restrict these Siri features:

  • Web Search Content: Prevent Siri from searching the web when you enquire a question
  • Explicit Language: Forestall Siri from displaying explicit linguistic communication

Restrict Game Center

To restrict Game Center features:

  1. Become to Settings and tap Screen Time.
  2. Tap Content & Privacy Restrictions, and then tap Content Restrictions.
  3. Scroll down to Game Eye, so choose your settings.

You lot can restrict these Game Center features:

  • Multiplayer Games: Prevent the ability to play multiplayer games with everyone, allow with friends only, or allow with anyone
  • Adding Friends: Prevent the ability to add friends to Game Heart
  • Connect with Friends: Prevent the power to share a Game Center friend list with third-party games
  • Screen Recording: Prevent the ability to capture the screen and sound
  • Nearby Multiplayer: Prevent the ability to enable the nearby setting
  • Private Messaging: Prevent the ability to voice chat or send or receive custom messages with game and friend invitations
  • Contour Privacy Changes: Prevent the ability to change profile privacy settings
  • Avatar & Nickname Changes: Prevent the ability to change Game Center avatars and nicknames

Allow changes to privacy settings

The privacy settings on your device give you control over which apps have access to data stored on your device or the hardware features. For example, you tin can allow a social-networking app to request access to use the camera, which allows you to have and upload pictures.

To allow changes to privacy settings:

  1. Go to Settings and tap Screen Fourth dimension.
  2. Tap Content & Privacy Restrictions. If asked, enter your passcode.
  3. Tap Privacy, and so choose the settings that you want to restrict.

Here are the things you lot tin restrict:

  • Location Services: Lock the settings to allow apps and websites to utilise location
  • Contacts: Prevent apps from accessing your Contacts
  • Calendars: Foreclose apps from accessing your Calendar
  • Reminders: Prevent apps from accessing your Reminders
  • Photos: Forbid apps from requesting access to your photos
  • Share My Location: Lock the settings for location sharing in Messages and Detect My Friends
  • Bluetooth sharing: Prevent devices and apps from sharing data through Bluetooth
  • Microphone: Prevent apps from requesting access to your microphone
  • Speech Recognition: Prevent apps from accessing Speech Recognition or Dictation
  • Advertising: Forestall changes to advertising settings
  • Media & Apple Music: Forbid apps from accessing your photos, videos, or music library

Allow changes to other settings and features

Y'all tin allow changes to other settings and features, the same style you tin can allow changes to privacy settings.

  1. Go to Settings and tap Screen Time.
  2. Tap Content & Privacy Restrictions. If asked, enter your passcode.
  3. Under Allow Changes, select the features or settings that you want to allow changes to and choose Allow or Don't Let.

Here are some features and settings that yous can let changes for:

  • Passcode Changes: Prevent changes to your passcode
  • Business relationship Changes: Prevent business relationship changes in Accounts & Passwords
  • Cellular Data Changes: Prevent changes to cellular information settings
  • Reduce Loud Sounds: Forestall changes to volume settings for condom listening
  • Driving Focus: Foreclose changes to the Driving Focus
  • TV Provider: Prevent changes to Boob tube provider settings
  • Groundwork App Activities: Prevent changes to whether or non apps run in the background

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